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One last comment.. alot of you need to get off of your high pedestals about casting blame on the mother. Isn't she suffering enough? My first child was easy and stayed by my side. My second threw me f more »

I can understand why the initial search focused on the water. However, why didn't authorities take action on every potential scenario, and issue an amber alert (or any kind of alert) as soon as the re more »

The article is about hungry children. All of the nasty commentors here should be ashamed of yourselves. The parents may be honest and hard-working, or may be mentally ill, neglectful, lazy, etc. But t more »

I've read some of the research related to the 'clean theory'. It made me think about the fact that the same kids who experience more of their 'environmental dirt' would also most likely experience les more »

Thank you for sharing Magrocks and all other mothers who have removed themselves and their children from horrible situations! You are definitely strong and have made the right choice for you and your more »

Antonio's has just about the best pizza in Massachusetts. It's so sad this happened. Since when are crimes blamed on a victim? Antonios is a small and amazing restaurant. Even if they did get a 'down more »

Patrick, please focus on making our schools a vital, engaging place for students to learn. Please make our public universities affordable for the legal citizens of Massachusetts. This is going to crum more »

Is youth hockey really that bad? The kids don't check or do anything aggressive if they are on a non-travel team. It's pretty much ice skating with a stick. It seems a little safer than the girls who more »

So, why have we been saving and sacrificing (bought a smaller house than we could have and saved a large percentage of income rather than driving an SUV, sending kids to expensive camps/classes, etc)? more »

I ask my son to tell me two real things that happened at school and one pretend thing. My job is to guess which item is made up. He loves this game, and plays every time! It often gets to any unusual more »

So, I probably can't afford a macmansion... However, my kids are still little and just want to be close to me ALL of the time. I'm pretty sure that we would all be in the same room all of the time no more »

I've been a resident of both areas. As a young adult/teenager, I would pick the Cape hands down (think Outer Cape- Beachcomber!). As an adult/parent, I love love love that there are so many small priv more »

A little off the subject - but I think it is quite tacky to have serious ex-boyfriends (not the mostly friends kind from middle-school) and ex-lovers (especially exlovers as this was your only previou more »

erinwm - I don't know what goes on in classrooms on a daily basis. I only know what goes on in my son's classroom, and I am an involved parent. He gets to see quite a few videos. His teacher is great more »

I posted earlier and mentioned daycare in my post. I'm not pointing fingers at daycare or working parents (I work). I'm targeting the general lack of a stable interactive community kids, meaning that more »

This is what happens when, a) parents send kids to an instutition (aka daycare) when they are young, b) there are 25 kids in an all-day kindergarten with one teacher who then go to an after-school pro more »